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About Watergrasshill

Watergrasshill, Cnocán na Biolraí in Irish, is a town in County Cork, 15 km north-east of Cork, with 860 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M8, R639 and L1522. The map gives it 768 buildings and 40 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 50 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Population
860 at the 2006 census
Where
15 km north-east of Cork, 205 km from Dublin
Position
52.0116° N, 8.3436° W, 184 m above sea level
Roads
M8, R639, L1522, L1524, L1540, L2964, L5807 and L5810
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
768 buildings, 40 streets, 20 named places in 27 kinds
Former Church of Ireland Church, Watergrasshill
Former Church of Ireland Church, Watergrasshill·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
R639 towards Watergrasshill
R639 towards Watergrasshill·Steven Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Cork since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

854,118330,443584,15618412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 50 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, R639, L1522, L1524, L1540, L2964, L5807 and L5810 running through Watergrasshill.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Watergrasshill National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Watergrasshill?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 15 km north-east of Cork and 205 km from Dublin, on the M8, R639 and L1522.
How big is Watergrasshill?
860 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 768 buildings and 40 named streets.
What is there to see in Watergrasshill?
50 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bogaghard Pond, Carroll's Pond and Devonshire's Hill.
How do you get to Watergrasshill?
1 bus and train line calls at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
768
buildings on the model
40
named streets
20
named places
27
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q3776348). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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